From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 19 00:15:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA12315 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 00:15:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA12303 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 00:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA09638 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:15:42 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA00563; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:03:17 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970619090317.EZ61808@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:03:17 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status on LS-120 drive support? (moving to chat...) References: <199706190524.BAA07086@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Tom Samplonius on Jun 18, 1997 23:08:05 -0700 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tom Samplonius wrote: > Plus, if these drives actually gain wide acceptance, it will really > limit expansion: you can only have 2 IDE busses, ... Not to defend IDE (the so-called `standard' is really laughable, and always makes me wonder why the heck most of the drives apparently work at all), but who says you can have only two busses? Of course, in the PeeCee world, it would require a vendor shipping something like PCI boards for another couple of IDE busses, but the thread was about non-PeeCees, so they might not opt to self-limit as the PeeCee world did. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)